title: Right pulmonary agenesis in an elderly woman complicated by transient ischemic attack.
abstract: There are few case reports regarding patients with right lung agenesis living to old age because of both severe mediastinal and cardiac displacements. We report a 61-year-old woman with right pulmonary agenesis complicated by a transient ischemic attack that was evaluated by a three-dimensional reconstruction of helical computed tomography and an echocardiography. This patient was able to survive until old age because she had no critical anomalies in other organs including the heart. A mitral valve prolapse was detected by a two-dimensional echocardiography and we treated her with anti-platelet aggregation therapy for the prevention of recurrent stroke.
authors.affiliation: Ueda Heart Clinic, Japan. hello@uedaheart-cln.cc
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nozoe
authors.forename: Yasuhisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamoto
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Irie
authors.forename: Katsufumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizushige
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003914:Dextrocardia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications*; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed